Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation | Psyche Ideas

Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about

You wouldn’t know it from a lot of everyday conversation, filled as it is with strong likes and dislikes and talk of good feelings or bad, but much of the time our take on things is a complicated mess – our opinions and feelings are not black and white, and they don’t point solely in one direction (ie, positive or negative). This can result in internal conflict: what is the right thing to do, feel or believe when you can see more than one side of an issue? I’m fascinated by the psychology of how we navigate these conflicting feelings, and that’s why I’ve been studying guilty pleasures – they…

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